Improvement in horse-powers



W. J. F. LiDDELL.

Improvement in Horse Powers.

No. 124,212, PatentedMarchf1,i872.

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WALTER J. F. LIDDELL, OF MADISON, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-POWERS.

Specification forming partof Letters Patent No. 124,212, dated March 5,1872.

' SPECIFICATION.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER J. F. LInnnLL, of Madison, in the county ofDane and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Horse-Powers; and I do hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enableothers skilled in the art to which my invention appertaius to make anduse the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing formingpart of this specification, in which- Figure 1. is a general plan or topview of my improved horse-power, and Fig. 2 is an enlarged verticallongitudinal central section of the same.

Similarletters of reference indicate like parts in both figures of thedrawing.

The object of my invention is to so arrange the operating parts as tolessen the friction, and thereby produce agreater power with a givenamount of draft; and to that end consists in a revolving frame, formingthe draft-levers, and to which frame is secured a system of gear-wheels,having an independent rotary motion jointly with a rotating movement ofthe frame, and which engage opposite sides of a pinion mounted upon avertical shaft carrying the fly-wheel, thereby overcoming the sidepressure of the shaft against its boxes. Also, in the combination of theseveral parts, which will be more fully understood from the followingdescription.

In the drawing, A represents the main or fixed frame, which may be asshown, or may be of any suitable form that will receive the operatingparts of the machine. B is a transverse cross-head or girt, which isfirmly secured to the upper side of the frame, at or near its end, andattached to the center of this girt is a vertical upright, (1, upon theupper end of which is permanently attached a fixed gear-wheel, D. E andE are the drattlevers, which form the sides of the revolving frame, andare united one to the other laterally by a system of crossgirts, cl,which are firmly secured to the upper and lower sides thereof. Firmlysecured in the heel or short ends of said levers are girts F and F,which extend diagonally across and firmly secured to the opposite lever,at or near its center, between the cross-girts d and the end of thelever, thereby forming a brace for the same. G and G are verticalshafts, which are secured in suitable boxes 6 e affixed to the centerand upper and lower sides of the cross-girts d, and firmly secured. Tothe lower end ofsaid shafts are pinions H and H, which engage the fixedgear-wheel D, mounted upon said shafts. Above the pinions aregear-wheels J and J, which engage opposite sides of a gear-pinion, K,affixed to the upper end of a vertical shaft, L, extending downwardthrough upright O and girt B, and is secured at its lower end by asuitable box, f, atfixed to the lower side of the said girts, and at itsupper end by passing through the center or hub of the wheel D. Firmlysecured to the lower side of the said levers is a cross-head, M, whichrests at its center upon shaft L, and is so arrangedas to freely revolvethereon. It also rests upon the center or hub of wheel D, so that, assaid frame is rota-ted, a rotary motion is imparted to shafts G and G bythe engaging of pinions H and H with wheel D, thereby communicating arotary motion to shaft L by the engaging of wheels J J with pinion K ofsaid shaft. Affixed to the lower end of the shaft K is a fly-wheel, N,from which motion is communicatedto any desired machinery by means of abelt or pitm an, not shown in the drawing.

I do not wish to confine myself, strictly, to either of theabove-described means of communicating motion, as a bevel-gear may beaffixed to the said shaft to engage a suitable pinion upon a horizontalshaft, and to which may be connected a tumbling-rod in the usual manner.

Having thus describedthe nature and object of my invention, what I claimas new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of levers E and E, diagonal girts F F, and erossgirtsd, forming the revolving frame carrying the gear-wheels J and J,substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. In combination with the said revolving frame, as described, shafts GG, wheels J J, pinions H H, fixed wheel D, pinion K, shaft L, andcross=head M, substantially as and for the purpose described.

The foregoing specification signed by me this 27th day of September, A.D. 1871.

WALTER J. F. LIDDELL.

Witnesses:

E. F. PARKER, E. W. ARNDT.

